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The Psychology of Friendship
Importantly, adolescents’ friendships also serve as training models to prepare for intimate romantic relationships (Fraley, Roisman, Booth-LaForce, Owen, & Holland, 2013; Simpson, Collins, Tran, & Haydon, 2007
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During the formation of friendships, people reciprocate favors and support quickly to avoid the impression of exploiting the other person (Lydon, Jamieson, & Holmes, 1997). In established friendships, however, such tit-for-tat behavior (immediate reciprocation; Axelrod & Hamilton, 1981) is detrimental as people value balanced relationships,
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Similarity in traits, attitudes, or interests among friends may be a byproduct of social homogamy (e.g., meeting in the neighborhood where people of similar socioeconomic status and political orientation live; McPherson et al., 2001) and further environmental factors influencing friendship formations (e.g., meeting during shared leisure activities
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“there is nothing intrinsically natural about separating all human beings into two opposing categories on the basis of one physical attribute of their overall being-in-the-world” (Rawlins, 2009, p. 125
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More extraverted people dress more stylishly, behave more confidently, and express more positivity, for instance through smiling—factors that make extraverted people attractive to others and make others like them better (Back et al., 2011
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the Adams-Blieszner-Ueno integrative conceptual framework for friendship research (Figure 3.1), depicts friendship patterns as dynamic and contextualized. Individual characteristics, consisting of social structural positions and psychological dispositions, which affect each other through interpretation and internalization, lead to the development o
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the average number of relationships in social networks ranges from 3 to 40 (Wrzus et al., 2013
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people feel varying degrees of closeness among their various friends. The emotional closeness to friends often relates to how similar they are in their interests, values, and personality traits (Floyd, 1995; Montoya, Horton, & Kirchner, 2008; Morry, 2007; Suitor, 1987).
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Interactive motifs are a person’s typical cognitive, affective, and behavioral propensities to think, feel, and act in certain ways across situations. Applied to relationships, interactive motifs reflect how individuals think about other people, respond to them emotionally, and engage with them.